Safety-pin



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S. A. HAISH.

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soPHIA ANN HAIsH, oF DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

SAFETY-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,317, dated october 16, 1888.

Application filed October-F25, 1887. Serial No. 253,361.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOPHIA ANN HAIsH, a citizen of the United States, residing at De Kalb, in the county of De Kalb and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Pins; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Figure l is a perspective view of the present invention; Fig. 2, a like View showing a modication; Fig. 3, a like View showing another modification; Fig. 4, a perspective View showing a double pin.

Heretofore there have been made several different varieties or styles of safety pins. rlhese have usually been constructed of wire, for the most part, and have been provided with some form of catch to hold and retain the sharpened point when the pin had been placed in the dress or otherwise used. The wire has sometimes been bent on itself, so as to give a better spring to the pin portion; but the difficulties with all such forms of construction with which I am acquainted are that the catch or shield for the point of the pin is at one end of the device, that the entire length of the pin cannot be utilized to hold the garment or cloth into which the pin is inserted, and that the structure is costly and more or less cumbersome.

In the present invention all the above objections have been overcome and aneat, cheap, and very durable pin produced.

Having now set forth in general terms the nature and object of the present invention, I will proceed to describe it more in detail, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, A denotes the pin. It is made of one piece of metal, preferably wire, and is nearly elliptical in shape. The bend b is flattened so as to be almost exactly rectangular in cross-section, and the body of the pin thence extending inward is sharpened at its end to form the point c. This construction gives stability to the point of the pin, causing it to overcome wiggling or too free sidewise movement, and thus enabling the user to direct the point with certainty, and, as desired,

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so as to Venter at any precise place into the garment or fabric. The other end, d, of the pin is bent at right angles with the length of the pin to form the catch to hold the point. If desired, both bends of the pin can be stiffened in the same manner as above described, and for some uses this construction may be preferable.

In Fig. 4 the pin is shown as made double, and the bend of the metal comes at the middle e, so as to form a catch for the two sharpened ends or points. For some uses this form is preferable to the single; but for all ordinary needs the single form is the one to be used; but the location of the catch must be along the length of the pin and at a distance from the ends and more or less central, so as to leave the ends of the pin entirely free and unobstructed for holding or attachment to the garments and the general uses for which the pin is designed.

It will be obvious that the device thus made of a single piece of metal, and in its simplest structure requiring but three bends, can be very quickly, cheaply, and easily made. The device is adapted along its entire length, eX- cept at the immediate point of fastening, for attachment to separate garments or pieces of fabric. While safety or nursery pins as usually made, having coiled` or unstiffened end, give awiggling or sidewise motion to the point7 which causes uncertainty in its movements and renders it liable to displacement, the flattened surface in this device, properly tempered, gives sufficient elasticity and at the same time imparts the desired stability to the point. The detail of attening the wire metal, when that is desired, is very simple, as any workman will easily understand. The structure of the modifications will add little, if anything, to the time or cost of the manufacture.

Having now described my invention, what I consider new, and desire to cover by Letters Patent, is

l. A safety-pin of general elliptical shape, having between its two ends a right-angled catch for the point, substantially as described and shown.

2. A safety-pin, as described, having between its two ends a right-angled catch for the point, the end, which in prolongation forms IOO the point7 being rectangular in cr0ss-seetion,

substantially as described and shown.

3. A double safety-pin having its ends rectangular in cross-secti0n, whereby they are 5 stiffened, and the right-angled catch for the points about midway between the ends, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SOPHIA ANN HAISH.

Witnesses:

J A0012 HAIsH, CHARLES H. SALISBURY. 

